Mundane Monday: Stacks and Cracks

This week’s Mundane Monday challenge shows the Taj Mahal framed by stacks of sandbags. It reminded me immediately of the stacks of sandbags I saw, and photographed, last week along a creek bed. No Taj Mahal here, but I was reminded of Leonard Cohen’s lyric, that the crack in everything is “how the light gets in.” In these stacks, the crack is where the flowers can grow:

I’ve been working on this challenge for about a year now. My interpretation of “mundane” has become to photograph things around my home that I pass by on a regular basis and might not notice otherwise, if not for this challenge.

Excellent idea! In my opinion, that’s one of the more valuable functions of art — to call our attention to things we might otherwise not notice, such as the beauty of flowers growing from a wall of sandbags. I’m so going to enjoy your Mundane Mondays now that I’ve found your blog!

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I am a neuroscientist, educator, geocacher, Unitarian-Universalist, amateur violinist, and parent. I have always been fascinated by how people's brains learn, and especially why this process is easier and more fun for some brains than others. This led me to get a PhD in Neuroscience, work in biotech, and then become a science educator and writer.